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Postcard from George Conner to Sister Amanda Conner. Material: paper. Size: 3" x 5". Description: white card stock addressed to Miss A. C. Conner, Waseca, Minn.; postmarked Waseca June 12 and stamped with one cent postage; message on reverse: "Monday 11th. Mother is a little better today than she has been for the last two days. I went to Owatonna Sunday and got Dr. Case, he stayed all night and went away this morning. He says it will be quite a while before she will be well. Will send this by Mrs. Davison. Geo. Conner. Blooming Grove, Minn."Context
Brother of Amanda Conner:
George Furman Conner
BIRTH 19 Jul 1857
Waseca County, Minnesota, USA
DEATH 10 Dec 1923 (aged 66)
Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA
BURIAL
Lakeside Cemetery
Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA.
Miss Amanda C. Conner of Blooming Grove and James Wilson (J.W.) Cleland were married October 3, 1877. Amanda was born September 11, 1852, in Indiana, and came to Waseca County with her parents in 1856.
Mother Sarah Lilly Conner moved with her husband and family to South Dakota in 1883. She died there in 1900.
Amanda's husband, J. W. Cleland was born September 27, 1847 in Delaware County, NY., and was one of nine children born to Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Cleland. He came West with his family in 1863. He carried on the homestead farm until 1885, when the place was sold and he purchased a small farm on the west shore of Clear Lake, near Waseca.
J. W. was stricken by paralysis while working about a threshing machine. He never recovered from the stroke and died after a very prolonged illness, July 15, 1903.Lexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsCreate Date
March 13, 2019Update Date
September 19, 2024